[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Network Audio Devices

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 16.12.07 21:53, Richi Plana (richip at richip.dhs.org) wrote:

> > > I've two Fedora 8 machines on the network where PA seems to run fine on
> > > each desktop. At least audio comes out through PA as shown by
> > > pavucontrol. I can't, however, see each other (as was demoed by Lennart
> > > in one of his videos). Other than pavucontrol, I don't even know how
> > > else to interact with the PA daemon.
> > 
> > Take a look at paprefs, specifically the Network Access tab.
> 
> Thanks for the tip. After installing paprefs, I enabled "network access
> to local sound devices" but the "Allow other machines on LAN to browse
> for local sound devices" remained grey'd out. Suffice it to say, I'm
> not

If this checkbox is greyed out, then you are missing the zeroconf
plugins for PA. Consider installing the pulseaudio-module-zeroconf package.

> seeing the local device of the other computer on both computers. I'm
> using pulseaudio-0.9.7 on Fedora 8 on both. Is it too old?

Yes, in some way. See my previous mail.

> I'm also noticing an oddity on the two devices. When I enabled
> Multicast/RTP sender on one machine, a virtual sink appeared on the
> Output tab. When I enabled "Simultaenouse output", the simul output
> virtual device appeared. When I did both on the other machine, neither
> virtual output device appeared. Not my main concern right now (getting
> audio to appear on a remote machine is), but I thought I'd mention the
> oddity anyway.

paprefs require pulseaudio-module-paprefs installed and
activated. Which should be the default. 

Lennart

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